Articles by Eileen Campbell-Reed, Academic Entrepreneur

April 5, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXVII

Lenten Lights AA ~ Six Word Story ~ because Sundays in Lent are celebrations ~ +++++++++++++++ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Six Word Stories, inspired by Ernest Hemingway show up often on my blog. During the 40 days of Lent, six-word stories are…

April 4, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXVI

Lenten Lights Z ~ Guest Post by Becky Sears Today’s photo and reflection come from photographer and friend, Becky Sears. If someone were to ask me what my greatest fear is, my answer would be loss of a loved one.…

April 3, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Keeper of the Fire - Year C Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXV

Lenten Lights Y is for Yield Discovering the gifts of my own yard is inspiring me this Lenten season to pay attention to what is close at hand. I captured the evening light in this photo mid-way through dinner on…

April 2, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXIV

Lenten Lights X ~ Learning from Failure I don’t know much about failure as a student. I came wired for academic success and achievement. I also came wired with tremendous shame about failures of any kind. No one ever really showed…

April 1, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXIII

Lenten Lights W ~ An Advantage in Failure? Sarah Lewis says in the opening chapter of The Rise, “I was focused on improbable rises because I was beginning to live with the gift of what it means to be underestimated. What…

March 31, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXII

Lenten Lights V ~ Shattered Visions “Failure is an orphan until we give it a narrative.” – Sarah Lewis, The Rise I’ve been contemplating failure. And I’m inviting you to think with me about it. It is not usually a…

March 29, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XXI

Lenten Lights U You prepare a table for me +++++++++++++++ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Six Word Stories are inspired by Ernest Hemingway, and I regularly add them to my blog. During the 40 days of Lent, six-word stories will (usually) be delivered on…

March 28, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XX

Lenten Lights T is for Tree Each day when I arrive at my office, I take a picture of this tree. As I step out of my car, I stand in roughly the same place and line up my phone/camera…

March 27, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XIX

Lenten Lights S ~ Play In the City Park of New Orleans stands a century-old carousel. Something this old and ornate and fun feels impossible for me to resist photographing. The afternoon light when we visit is not terribly cooperative,…

March 26, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XVIII

Lenten Lights R ~ Visibility Walking through the streets of New Orleans, so much captures my vision: the visible and the hidden. A wrought iron window in a blue door pulls me up for a closer look at its intricate…

March 25, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XVII

Lenten Lights Q – Desire We are well into the season when all things are made new here North of the Equator. The approaching Easter gathers up its own celebration of life renewed in resurrection. The earth cooperates in abundant…

March 24, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XVI

Lenten Lights P ~ Memphis Part 2 Today is the birth date of Civil Rights leader, Dorothy Irene Height (1912-2010). It is a lovely serendipitous moment for my Lenten journey because already my intention was to write about the “Freedom’s…

March 22, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XV

Lenten Lights O ~ Memphis Part 1 I spent most of the morning on the verge of tears, teaching and explaining through my sadness and grief and outrage and pride. It was my second time through the National Civil Rights…

March 21, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XIV

Lenten Lights N ~ Guest Post by Frank Thomas Today’s photo and reflection on light come from photographer and friend, Frank Thomas.* Lent and Light ~ Frank Thomas I’m in a position to wait. Camera shake won’t be a problem…

March 20, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XIII

Lenten Lights M #Spring

March 19, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XII

Lenten Lights L Leonard Cohen captures the human experience like few others. The poetry and atmosphere in “Come Healing” capture the intermingling of Lent’s longing for healing, the chase of light and shadow, and the earth awakening to all that…

March 18, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent XI

Lenten Lights K ~ Living Water Watch out! Moving through Lent and toward this Sunday’s worship, we are going to get wet. Water is a central character in three readings this week. And how precisely fitting! We humans are more…

March 17, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent X

Lenten Lights J – Shamrock! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Meet, Larry Morris, Contributor salesperson, self proclaimed “Black Elvis” and today, Shamrock! Saturday morning, I stopped by McDonald’s in Bellevue for breakfast on the run, and I was totally delighted by…

March 15, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent IX

Lenten Lights I watercolor vision ~ church year ~ circling seasons __________ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Several years ago I discovered Six Word Stories, inspired by Ernest Hemingway. Photos with six-word stories are scattered around my blog. During the…

March 14, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent VIII

Lenten Lights H ~ Honeycomb Spring is not waiting for the calendar. Today the earth is awake with divine glory. Bees are buzzing. Hives are waking up after a long cold winter. Trees and flowers are opening their buds.…

March 13, 2014Keeper of the Fire - Year A 2013-14 Lent 2014 by Eileen Campbell-Reed

Lent VII

Lenten Lights G ~ Lenten Rose II Two Lenten Roses in one week seems both surprising and excessive. Here’s how it happened… As we sat down to dinner my husband said, “There is another of those Lenten Roses blooming in the…

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